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Recent Examples of filicide
Several generate physical action that, besides wickedness, is driven by rage — fights, accidents, assaults, pederasty, filicide, matricide.
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Stuart Dybek, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
One study of maternal filicide observed that, whereas psychotic mothers often acted suddenly, depressed mothers tended to contemplate killing their children for days or weeks before acting.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
One study of maternal filicide observed that, whereas psychotic mothers often acted suddenly, depressed mothers tended to contemplate killing their children for days or weeks before acting.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Each was a tragedy, but maternal filicide falls low on the register of reasons for infant death.
—Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
In Massachusetts, a horrific case of filicide has reawakened difficult talks about postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, which are known to be under-diagnosed and under-treated in women who recently gave birth.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
Podcasters, reporters and TV producers rushed to South Carolina to tell a Shakespearean story of filicide, anchored by a main character whose button-down shirts seem to cover a terrifying moral void.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
Supplementary Homicide Reports in 2014 to determine that filicide – a parent’s act of killing his or her child or children – occurs on average 500 times per year in the United States.
—Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
Crimes of the Future Rated R for filicide, surgeries and power-drill violence.
—New York Times, 2 June 2022
Stuart Dybek, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
One study of maternal filicide observed that, whereas psychotic mothers often acted suddenly, depressed mothers tended to contemplate killing their children for days or weeks before acting.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
One study of maternal filicide observed that, whereas psychotic mothers often acted suddenly, depressed mothers tended to contemplate killing their children for days or weeks before acting.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Each was a tragedy, but maternal filicide falls low on the register of reasons for infant death.
—Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
In Massachusetts, a horrific case of filicide has reawakened difficult talks about postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, which are known to be under-diagnosed and under-treated in women who recently gave birth.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
Podcasters, reporters and TV producers rushed to South Carolina to tell a Shakespearean story of filicide, anchored by a main character whose button-down shirts seem to cover a terrifying moral void.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
Supplementary Homicide Reports in 2014 to determine that filicide – a parent’s act of killing his or her child or children – occurs on average 500 times per year in the United States.
—Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
Crimes of the Future Rated R for filicide, surgeries and power-drill violence.
—New York Times, 2 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filicide
Noun
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Several generate physical action that, besides wickedness, is driven by rage — fights, accidents, assaults, pederasty, filicide, matricide.—
Stuart Dybek,
New York Times,
10 Feb. 2025
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One thing that struck most reporters was her apparent lack of remorse or grief over this rare crime — matricide, the murder of a mother by her biological child.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
28 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Macron’s ascent to the presidency began, like a certain Greek tragedy, with parricide.—
Arthur Goldhammer,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2018
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Pancakes and parricide, anyone?—
Joanna O'Leary,
Chron,
24 Jan. 2021
Noun
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But Dwight picks the fight by almost immediately accusing Chickie of patricide, which happens to be true but won’t win you any brownie points, for sure.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
17 Nov. 2024
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The movie includes intense domestic abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), gun violence, death and descriptions of patricide.—
Common Sense Media,
Washington Post,
19 July 2024
Noun
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The fratricide overshadowed Caracalla’s achievements, including the passage of an edict granting all free men in the Roman Empire citizenship and the construction of a luxurious public bath complex that bore the emperor’s name.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Nov. 2024
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Here, Hamlet is a melancholy suburban prince named Juicy, in a Black family rocked by betrayal and fratricide and ghosts who pop out of backyard grills.—
Chris Richards,
Washington Post,
19 Oct. 2023
Noun
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The raw power grab that excites Lady Macbeth and incites her husband to regicide feels especially pertinent now, when the dangers of autocracy loom over political discussions.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
28 Mar. 2024
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Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.—
Stephen Collinson,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2023
Noun
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Abby’s friends disarm Ellie, and then Abby murders Joel in front of Ellie’s eyes.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Jones is charged with murder, abduction and felonious assault, WTVG reported.—
Staff Author,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Sheriff’s office homicide detectives have taken over the investigation from Florida City police, Rodriguez said.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Apr. 2025
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This investigation is ongoing; any information regarding the shooting may be shared with Little Rock police homicide detectives at (501) 371-4660.—
Jesse Cain,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Filicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filicide. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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